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17 Rewarding Excellence in Teaching: An Administrative Challenge
17 Rewarding Excellence in Teaching: An Administrative Challenge
Pages 141-147
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It means reinstalling undergraduate education as a priority in the comprehensive university. A challenge to presidents and provosts will be to ensure that deans, directors of experiment stations and extension services, and department heads recognize that undergraduates are vital to their self-interests.
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Society's support, however, particularly support by state legislatures, public support, and the support of economic institutions within the state, region, and country, is dependent more on the quality and success of the baccalaureate and professional program graduates. Undergraduate education represents the strongest constituent influence on legislators.
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At Texas A&M University, we have created the Center for Teaching Excellence to provide a focal point for enhancing faculty teaching skills, researching approaches that enrich the classroom experience, communicating effective ideas and approaches, and providing diagnostic, evaluative, and development services on the individual and departmental levels. One of our Capital Campaign goals is to endow this center, and we have found it to be a very attractive concept for donors.
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Although there is an extensive amount of literature critical of university teaching, particularly undergraduate teaching, the administration has had only scant guidance on what is truly feasible. The common recommendation for the evaluation of teaching is the periodic, regular student evaluation of the course.
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Administrators have an important role to play in helping to create expectations and reward systems that effectively reaffirm our commitment to undergraduate teaching in the multiple-mission, comprehensive research university. RAPPORTEUR9S SUMMARY A clear message was articulated by William H
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The problems relative to recognizing teaching are further complicated by the fact that institutional officials are constantly stating that they truly value teaching, but their reward system clearly shows that these statements are hypocritical at best. It has been suggested that the best means of valuing an institution's desire to reward teaching excellence is not to count the numbers of plaques given out annually for teaching performance but to compare the growth in budgets for teaching, research, and public service.
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An accepted means of teacher evaluation could be used to shape behaviors of faculty members as well as those of departmental, college, or university administrators. The institution would be communicating its expectations while it would be positively reinforcing behavioral patterns consistent with those expectations.
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